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title: I hate cruelty: I never put a wicked stepmother in a barrel and send… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I hate cruelty: I never put a wicked stepmother in a barrel and send her tobogganing down a hill. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 20

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I hate cruelty: I never put a wicked stepmother in a barrel and send her tobogganing down a hill.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hate, not put, send, toboggan down · **To what, where:** cruelty, wicked stepmother, barrel, England, hill

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:1:20
# text = I hate cruelty: I never put a wicked stepmother in a barrel and send her tobogganing down a hill.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	tobogganing	toboggan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | I | cruelty |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cruelty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **put** | past | I | a wicked stepmother |  | a barrel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stepmother=Theme in barrel=Destination |
| 3 | **send** | infinitive | I *not said here* | England |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **toboggan down** | gerund | I *not said here* | a hill |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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